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163 - How Did He Die?

No Dumb Questions

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The Importance of Soft Determinism

In college, Ellington got to fly on the KC-135 vomit comet at Johnson Space Center. "I talked to the camera like I talk to the camera and smarted every day now," he says of his interview with a man who floats in zero G. He also talks about soft determinism: circumstances that put you on a certain path where your choices are increasingly limited.

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